Jay Stefany to Lead Navy’s New Maritime Industrial Base Program Office
The Navy is standing up a new maritime industrial base program office and has tapped one of its career civil servants to take the helm.…
NAVAIR: X-47B Fails Fourth Trap Attempt
The Northrop Grumman X-47B failed to land on the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) on Monday in the Navy’s fourth…
Unmanned Aircraft Help Navy Study Hurricanes
Forget Moby Dick’s white whale – a tropical cyclone is by far the most difficult ocean beast to track. This…
Document: Coast Guard Report on 2010 Carnival Splendor Incident
The following is from the executive summary of the June 24, 2013 U.S. Coast Guard Report: Report of Investigation into…
Eugene P. Wilkinson: Nuclear Navy Pioneer
The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Vice Adm. Eugene Parks Wilkinson’s oral history for the U.S. Naval Institute. Parks…
Navy to Send Ship on Drug Patrols After Four-Month Hiatus
The U.S. Navy will resume patrols for drug runners in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific after an almost four…
Greenert and Amos Talk Future of Navy and Marine Corps
The commandant of the Marine Corps and the chief of naval operations made the case for forward presence in an…
Updated: No Tasking for U.S. Marines Near Egypt to Intervene in Conflict
Marines on two amphibious warships in the Red Sea have not been given tasking to respond to the growing unrest…
Navy to Decommission 7 Frigates, MCM and SSN.
Seven Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates are up for Foreign Military Sale (FMS), according to a list of ships the Navy…
Pentagon’s Sequestration Plan
The following is the July 10, 2013 Pentagon response to Sen. Carl Levin’s (D-Mich.) request to the Department of Defense…
New Age in Carrier Aviation Takes Off With X-47B Landing
The Navy has entered a new age in carrier aviation with the successful landing of the unmanned Northrop Grumman X-47B…